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V THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 3, 1910, Some Things You Want To the H.OuO rural lotl.r carrleri of the I nlted States a Unjal holiday U not merely J a holiday-It ls also i uuy for meeting to- Br t-ountr. l""-ict and state ai.ocia. ttona. Tomorrow will be Independent day ' ..... ... ..v. ilos ,ne rural u;tter carrier..- aanoclatlons will hold convent lone, while l scores of county and district convention i the purpoees of meeting In association!! fyr the advancement of mutual Interests. wL'tll K. hB..l I'.... . -. , . . t .1 ............ j iiiwv " " - m lit V " "v -""cnuons w, ii . paj-e,.,. The can l. r now devotes his hole ' frequent trips to town or village postofriccs i Pine ano ainieio imne.ie upon ""l ' poUl.m,n No descended upon the old i threat, to file a claim with the ejurte. meet tomorrow In Colorado al Denver. In j tw. and attention to the postal service. In their vicinity. The service hss helped to skirts of a phospliste carnp Inhabited ,houIj,,'r " ie prang round with a' Hardly had William Brown left the police rennesaee at Nanivllk-. In WcorgU a , ,n(n ;te w,,i() be firsl a o1ci,0r f, a j ad ance fai m prices at least tfW.OMMW. or , a f'-"' score negro lahorei. and. beyond , fm(J hlTmelf , pH.er 0f the law ! station when a certain Maxlmus tfmlth Lome, In -North Carolina al Kaloign a0d 1 grocery store and second a servant of the ! from E. to 40 per cent. More than per an occasional arrest for drunkenness or. j ..j,., Me you've got In that box " made his appearance. He stated that the in South Carolina at Newberry, f. V. j ,v,-tofflc. cent of the Inhabitants of continental ! ! nights, the policeman's duty was tb4 po,lc,m,n ll)uul!llUv,lv. i land on which the safe had been found had 'j .'.i jUS U"1 V,mtrr i The carriers declare that a local parcels Vnlted States dwell In the rural districts." 'sinecure. domil an(, wUh a prodigious exercise of been leased to him under a year's ortion to erai. will attend the North Carolina con- ! po,,, sll,,n , pi0Vded for by several Even accepting the statement that the Policeman 27 took a gulp of Ice watet ,tr , ,t frorn ,n noe only , buVt for tn, purpose of cutting It up Into rentlon. Memorial day, Thank.clvlng day, b, pdiug In c.ngresn. would permit rursl senlce costs mono.00 more mJi year j and looked Isslly along the struggling ws u fu bftck ,g,ln building lots. He had Just completed his arid such other holidays as the postmaste.-j e,.ei.ybod ,. t0 u ne rur rout for U)v than u produc oiract revenue. It p. street of shscks. The only thing that By Junny u.g been ,hefe a ,ong Ume. purch,,e and demanded the-sale. Subse general may decree as days of rent for delivery of small parcels of merchandise peare on the authority of the Postofflce stirred was an old. shambling figure that wh inBlu-money ?" ouently he, too. filed a claim with tne -U the five state conventions tomorrow j Partrr,ent. The objections to this parcels! that It has added three-fourths of a bil- asked Tollceman 27. galvanised Into sudden a yuentlon of tremendous Importance will IM,U wh;ciJ ,5 !lmllei, to , cI...u,e of ! lion dollars to the wealth ot this same 5 activity. "Stranger -here?" be aiscussed. The very ex.tiw of 'lie ' paclmgep ovIginntiDg on the route, were l per cent of the people. On this showing "I reckon so," answered the storekeeper rural -free dellver scrUce, is pow conMl- rfd on tne ,hMry tnat lt ,vould lntei fere i rura, maiI fervlce Is entitled to some j UMly. "Looking over those lots that 1 luted is at ctakb. A poworlul party at j wlth u,0 ,.u.u of c,r,ylng letter and consideration. vt Smith at. option on. T guess." Washington, iwld to have the backlne of papr.r . ,f the ,.,vice Is placed on the No other one agency has uone so much "1 n Mm yesterdey." said the polite Influential men 1;. the Poatofflce depart- cnlrul.t t,, ,MV lho ctvrler., the parcel ! for the cause of good roads as has the 1 man. buttoning up his cost. "And now I mcnt. and certainly having Miong upori I i,uaincH i! be the thief .arc of the car-j,Url tree delivery mail service. The peo- come to think ot lt. I seen him the day in congress, proposes lo plate tii-j rural free i .... .... f i, ., ,..t. ih... . ce,m. before, tinder them oaks. But I tievex tfi..iit.-pu .e m.i . j "....j IUUU vi. fcJ.'J bUJIU iVl ...'.15, That. Ih tn t)t lh 0 rimo,t m.ii ,, v.. niu.iih ruuke a contract for i.k; d-.liv.ry o.' mall on each rural rouie, and tho contractor w ill be responsible to tho- goi ornment. The rural letter carrier then will be no longer nn officer of the government, but a man hired by a local contractor, lie no longer I will serve as the sworn of flier of ine ! govcrnmeul arid receive n stipulated .-alar from the Postofflce department, hut he ! will be the agent of the contractor and ' will be hired at whatever price he may be able to get. In short, It ls proposed that the government retire from tne direct con trol of the rural mall service, nnd place the service on the contract uuhIs, Just as the atar mall routes now are, and always have been. The advantage sought to be obtained is the great saving In the cost ot the service that would result. Naturally, the rural letter carriers are opposed to the proposed charge, for It means that they will go out of business. Their demand for Increased pay was re fused by a. narrow majority In the house of representatives and resignations have been Increasing rapidly on account of thu unprofitableness of the work. But on the whole, the carriers are anxious to main tain their present position, ti'ur-tlng to the future for better pay. The maximum sal ary of a rural carrier ls JdOO a year, whloli Is paid for a route twenty-foar miles long, or longer. For routes less than twent)- four miles In length the puy Is decreased ! on a scale of two-mile gradations, down j to the minimum of six to elgut miles at: v! a year. ! ... ...... --'"- - ' "- Ixed and have excellent muchlnery for mak - ing their opinions known to the members po sed - co a tract system on several grounds. They declare that such a wholesale ex pansion ot the star i"i to My stem, v!lcli has been greatly diminished by the rise of the rural free delivery service, would lead to graft ot enormous proportions. In sup port of this they cite the famous star romo frauds of thirty years ago and the vast number of small Instances of atari route grafting or of star route failure give good service. They assert that a merchant In the town I turn Roller Coaster, Merry-Go-Round. Miniature Railroad, Roller Skating, Bowling, Shooting, Penny Arcade, Japanese Novelty Game and a score of other amusement features. EXCELLENT CAFE SERVICE. Beautiful Picnic Groves equipped with Free Swings, See Saws, Tables, Chairs, Wells and conveniences not found in any other resort. I The Rural Mail Service from which the rural routes radiate will bid In the contract at a price too low to permit of a living wage In order that he mav eend out a clerk to deliver mail and wares trom his store, to collect letters and order - for rro. erie on the same trtD. The i..in.i f.,,Ki.i. m .nuit . orders, even for subsrlntloni to news- ! harg ind that this would result In an enormous ostoffice de-1 ! additional revenue to the Poi - ablo tt everybody, nor would ths govern- . rr-.r. .ln.'A unv rv..iiA rr.nn If t - I. metit dtiv an revemi from It at all. - Ths National Association of R.iral better ; Caiiieis. at Its forthcoming meeting In Lit- tie nock, undoubtedly will prote-t against j the proposed char.gc. Th law strictly pro-. hil.its the carriers, who are under civil s-v.-i.-e regulations, from taking active part I In politics, but nevertheless there are many ! politicians who leallue the fores and power 1 of these carrier, who go about through the coi.ctry every day and come lu direct con tact v.tli the farmers. It ls more thau propablc that the rural cairtra will find wq.is snd mea:i to extiaot pledges front congressional candidates, binding them to ; vote against the contract system. At any rate, Kailers among the rartieis belWve that such a fight is necessary to nave the service. The rural free delivery mail service Is perhsps the most popular department of the government. It was established in 1SKI, by an appropriation of only $10,000 for ex perimental purposes. It grew rapidly from that time until October. 1S09. when the piesent postofflce administration, in the Interei-t of economy, adopted a policy of restraint. Since that time no new routes have been established, and the only axtcn sions made have been additions to routes already In existence, or by combining star route and delivery servl--e when practlc- able. The postmaster general In his report urg. itig economies In the postal service declared tl.at the rural service showed a net loss of 2S.(0..0.j for the last fiscal yea'i,. . Friend" of the service declared that this was ini ijuJt. in tUal tll! ,uriil .mioe a, not ( creU.lc(J t,.,expendltur, of . t4 0!, ,tar nMtm discontinued. or of more than tl.tiOO.OuO for the fourth class poalofflces discontinued. Further more. It was urged that the rural routes oug.it to Ire credited wltii a largo part of the mail originating elsewhere, but destined for rural delivery, because of the fact that the rural delivery has so greatly stimulated the amount of mall matter going into rural ; districts. tn a monthly report of the fourth as to:ai8tant postmaster general, made soon after congress had received the report atUiin . r 1 ' ' V - AcflinrD.fi to Know .howln the alleged g am Arm loss. fh. I language was used: 'Through facilities ex tended by rural delivery, reports received at the department show that farmers save mote than IW.OnO.OO annually by being re-! lleved of the loss of time required of men . .i t.m hinh n.,....rv in ' ths Inatallatlon of the service In making : than half of the people of the country more than I400.000.OCO a yesx in expenses, and . .. 5 lo ine ingivKrutt', 1 QiDRruneni intl ilia e..rv.i;c uicn niwie '.- - - - i pel led lo mshe their voads passable to getn"'cea nis wmi i.-....,. it n.l ihev must further improve their roads to keep It. Then, too, the carrier, who must furnish horses and vehicles at Pia own expense, has a powerful Incentive to preach the doctrine of good roods. He doc It. The National Association of rtuial Carriers is now engaged tn an eifort to organize a good roads society In every township and county In the country The Kural Free Delivery News ls the of ficial organ of the letter carriers, and through its columns the carriers and their patrons along the routcf arc uept in toucn ....... .... ,..ov..u of events In oostal at- fairs, congressional and departmental. This paper gives much space to the good roads propaganda and serves also as a means of intercommunication among the can let s Vi "w .-.i -. . ...hint, of clasa advertising. It Is impossible to reckon the true worth of the rural -mall service by balancing re ceipts against disbursements. Its Indirect worth to the country, material and moral, la Incalculable. The people of the rural dis tricts are hoping tor the time when the ( Bervice may be still further extended. In the meantime the carrier are preparing to fight to the end against the proposed aban donment of direct service by the govein- I mei,t in favor of the contract system. BT rKEDEBXO J. XABKIMTc Tomorrownl. Cost of the Celebration, I I Ilarnor ia t V Vmrm of the Pharaohs. Writing under the caption above in the Issue of Harper' a Weekly, Charles John ston describes, ' among other things, the marital status of the lady of Pharaoh's realm. "Tl.at ladles were not unduly op pressed In the land of the Pharaohs," he rays, "we may gather from this marriage contract: 'I.' says lady Isls. 'take thee as my husband. Thou makest me thy wife, and givest me. In token of dower, five-tenths of silver.. If I discharge thee as my huubgnd, hating thee and loving another more than thee, I shall give and return to thee two and a half tenths of stiver, of what thou gavest m a my dower; and I cede unto thee, of all and everything that I shall acquire with thee. one-third part, as long as thou art married i r u,lt0 (51 oatingp Fislbinga ID) Treasure ! BY II. M. F.GBKRT. 'Copyright. IPie. by the New 4'oik Fvenlng I Telegram New York Herald Company). I All rights reserved. Policemen f! ot Station B. Clreit Pelican. Tla , his coat unbuttoned, his helmet tilted jback from hip. hot fun-head, was fanning '.himself with a palmetto leaf In front ot t',n It was a sweitering day and nothing was . , so far from the policeman's mind as the thovt-ht of criminals. Station H w-es. In fact, the headquarter" of a largq tract ot toward a cluster of oaks nearby, "Who's that old feller. Mr. Pi own?" " ni some uiuiu.j ......nr., answered the storekeeper. "What's the matter with his walk?" "Prison walk," answered Pollconian 27. "Can't ba mistook. They say It takes three years to get It, and when you've got It you've got It for keeps. Tt'ckon I'U hang around here tonight." "The place 1s yours," said the store keeper. "Hut 1 reckon any ctcok'd be a fool to look for anything round here." Jim Cable's action, to one who con- . Uv,,., ....... appeared peculiar. Three times, on threa successive days, he had Sor.e stealthily to , the spot under the oaks where he had ; secieted his pick and shovel In a palmetto j cluster, and. standing there, had looked l a a.t LAinUaslu niuli.fln a ieai till- ;iou.m n.... ,iy- ,. .i"." Ing. Now he was resolved to wait till nightfall and prosecute his quest Kive days previously he had been dis charged from the state penitentiary after an Imprisonment that had lasted five and forty years. In the beginning of the year 1863 Cable had been sent to prison for kill ing a man. When the day of his freedom dawned he would not go penniless Into the world. Because pencil and paper were denied him, he had carried the measurements In his head through all those five and forty years, repeating them until they became, as lt were, a ritual that he could never for get. Only one thing puzzled him now. The cleft hapllng which w as the central point of his mental diagram had disappeared. He walked among the oaks muttering, as the sun gradually moved down the burning ex panse of the sky. The shadows grew longer. All at once Cable understood, "By gum! What a fool I've been!" he cried aloud. "Even an oak puts on a mighty deal of growth In forty-five yesrs Why, that sapling must be a big tree by now. And them's It," he added. Indicating a twin oak treo that sprang from a single root. 'He couM hardly wait till dark, but a aoon as the sun went down and the full moon appeared in tho west began plying his pick and shovel with nervous haste. After r 00 o norni Trove a "half hour s digging Cable s pick rang ; upon metal A few more strokes and he 1 had uncoveied the upper portion of a steel safe, red with rust but still solid and strong. Hs worked around It until It was com pletely excavated. Then, bending down the old man braced h.meeif against the trunk snd strove to lift the safe. He could not budge it. He desisted at last and broke Into queru lous, childish sobs. "Ef I had had ths ksyl" he muttered. I never found no key." when the hand of rnent Suddenly Cable tumbled upon his knees and caught the policeman's hand. "There's nigh pnto a hundred thousand dollars in bills Inside." he pleaded. "It's half yours ef you'll help me to open It. It's mine. 1 put It there for safety when I was young man. I'll divvy up with you." The policeman reflected. The largeness of the sum made his auspicious. The old man was probably a lunatic. On the other hand, if his story were true as to the amount It must be the proceeds of a robbery. He could hardly hope to secrete his share and avoid detection If he reported his dlscov - ery lt would undoubtedly mean promotion and release from the tedium and oppro brium of rotation B. fo on the next day the following story appeared In the Great Pelican News: "After forty-five years the proceeds of an ancient robbery have just come to light. Possibly some of the older generation may recollect the sensational burglary ot the Pelican Farmers bank In February, 1S65. According to newspapers of that time the vault ot the bank was entered and Mils to the amount of $U,t.i0 were extracted In a small safe, which the robber carried away i In rart llmt vlua It. m-Attil.ff Am Hie I man leaped into the vehicle he was sur prised by the night watchman, lie coolly shot him dead, gathered tip the reins and drove off into the pine wastes, where he was located and arrested on the following day. He had found time, however, to se crete his booty, which. In spite of the most energetic search, was never recovered. "Yesterday an aged man, giving the same name Jim Cable M thai under which the rubber had been convicted, was discov ered, by policeman No. 27 of station B. In the act of excavating a safe from under a large oak In the vicinity of Brown's gen eral store. When apprehended he stated that he was the robber, that he had been released recently from state's prison after serving a commuted sentence of forty-five years and that the safe contained the pro ceeds of his plunder. "An offer to share this wealth with the policeman was Indignantly refused, and Cable was conveyed to headquarters, where he is now In custody under a technical charge of vagrancy. A dispatch from the penitentiary confirms the statement that Cable was released last week, and it Is believed that his story is true. "Policeman No. S! has been transferred to station A aa a reward for his enter prise. "So far, the safe has defied all attempts to open lt, but this will be effected this afternoon with nitroglycerin." 3eorge Lorlmer. manager of the Pelican i Farmers' bank, read this item at breakfast. M He dashd down his paper and rn all the'partment In the presence of the five claim way to police headquarters, wheie hs x ettedty demanded that ths safe be Instantly turned over to him, as ths representative j ot the bank. His reiutit being politely re- fued. hs dashed out of the station, and j twenty minute later, an Injunction was served upon the chief of police forbidding the safe to be opened and ordering that It be waled until Ita ownership should be decided upon. On the same morning, half an hour after the Injunction had been Issued. William Brown, proprietor of a general store, ap peared at police headguarters with the re qust that the safe, having been discovered upon his land, be handed over to him as I sole proprietor. He we confronted with I the Injunction and withdrew, muttering courts. An Interesting legal battle was now Im minent, In the heat pf the debate, whlcn became state wide. Jlni Cable's otfntise, whatever It might be. waa forgotten. Sym pathy was aroused for him. and a sub scription was biartcd which provided funiU j to afford the old man ease for u time, litlmaiely, after his deposition had been tsken. he was discharged from custody and went his way. The court duly convened at last, when a surprise was afforded by tho appearance j of the district attorney of Urcat Pelican. He Interposed the plea that. Inasmuch as the city had passed a resolution at the last meeting of the council In favor of the ac quisition of the Hrown-Sinltb property for the establishment of a municipal water works, the safe, having been found on the property, s)iould be committed to the care of the city. A representative of the state hete inter vened with a claim upon the ground that the safe and Its contents came under the classification of reserved phosphste, cosl and rare and precious mineral lands. When theso claims had bet: formally entered a little man sprang up from among the body ot the spectators and demanded the immediate custody of the safe and Its contents. He held In his hand a formidable document, from whl.ii he read lengthy ex tracts. During the latter years of (he eight eenth century, he stated, when England captured Florida from Ppsln, the land upon which Q.eat Pelican stood had been granted, with all manorial rights, to a certain Wil liam de Buckley, Ksq., Gent., of Buckley-Buper-Tbames, England. Now, Inasmuch as the land had never been formally escheated, the sate and Iti contents reverted, a moiety to the descendants of the said William de Buckley and a moiety to the English crown. He, therefore, respectlfully demanded that he be granted full possession of the safe. The court adjourned and animated dis cussion arose among the claimants and their partisans.' lt was generally agreed, however, that the Pelican Farmers bank sioou tne beet cugnce. witn tne tirown- i Smith claims a close second. After much bartering the descendants of William de Buckley formally surrendered all his own rights In consideration of the sum of 126, contributed Jointly and severally by the other five claimants, thereby assisting the ends of Justice. After a short deliberation the court an nounced ita decision. Inasmuch aa the contents of the safe had not been exam ined, it announced, argument as to own ership at present appeared superfluous. The court therefore directed that the safo be opened by an officer of the police de- o) n J Y V Dancing TTD ant, or their representatives, at 4 o cl.x k ths follewlng afternoon Tills w done. .X charge of dynamite having effected It work, the claimants. Leaded by the chief of police and a couple of reporters, broke inreugn a jeering moo, whmii mt claimed that the safe wss stuffed with old rags, and dashed Into the vault. Under the wrecked lid lay pa. ksge after package of bright, crisp bank bills, as new as when they had been placed In their sir tight receptacle forty-five years before. It was evident at a glan.e that their aggre gate value was not far short of the su.n which Cable had stolen. The chief of police took up a handful ot bills and held them under the electric globe and the five claimants, pittsing around him, looked at them. Then the manager of the Pelican Kami era' bank smiled coldly, clapped on his hai and strode out of tho vault. The state and city representatives in vited each other to come and have a drink. Maxlmus finlth asked William Prown how much ha would give to get back his building lots again and leave him only the option. Policeman 17 hastened away to his new post In Station A before he could be trans ferred. "What's the matter"" asked a cub re porter of one of tho elder me:t. "Don't they vain It any tuoic?" "Nope." the other replied. "Confedeiate bills." . Baehetor's Reflections. Industry without Judgment can beat runaway automobile for smaihups. What Is fo fascinating to a girl about a romance ls so little s?nse ever goes with It. A woman can make mystery out of how it rained when (lie grocer's boy said It waa going to he fair. Come people are ro naturally cranky they want you to have a bad temper so they can abuae you for It. A man with money in his pocket goes Into a restaurant and orders terrapin because he likes ham and eggs better. The reason so many men make love to a girl Is because she says they do. A woman can know ten times as much aa her husband ar.d be satisfied to let him act aa if It were tlss other way round. It's wonderful how bigger a dollar looks to a man when he upends It upon his wife at notne man wren he throws It away upon friends downtown. New York Press. Sanatorium This institution la the only ou In the central west with separate buildings situated In their own ample grounds, ret entirely dis tinct and rendering It possible to classify cases. The one building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of noncontagious and nonmental diseases, no others be ing admitted. The other. Rest Cottage, being designed for and devoted to the exclusive treatment of select mental cases, requiring for a time watchful care and spe cial nursing. llmtmrr kMira, La fcMI gl.ef !. ItatMkMliMIVM, Madame Josephine Le Ferre, Ckrtal b. rhllaaaw la Bol4 y 37tr Dillon Prof Co., Beston Drug Co.. tti Ball Iirur Co., Illna Drus Co.. Omtti. Clfrk brut Co., LVmukU Bluff , Iova. O man do ra nn 3 !